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Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park

(American, 1902–1984)
about 1937
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 18.8 x 23.5 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
Mount: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Framed: 38.4 x 48.6 x 4.1 cm (15 1/8 x 19 1/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
Credit LineThe Lane Collection
Accession number2018.2428
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
Inscriptionsmount, verso, u.l., graphite: 372-C mount, verso, center, stamp seven, black ink: PHOTOGRAPH/ BY/ ANSEL ADAMS/ ROUTE 1, BOX 181/ CARMEL, CALIFORNIA/ 93921 mount, verso, center, black ink [AA's hand]: "Flemish Gold" Toner/ Selenium [in brackets]/ 8 x 10 Camera mount, verso, center, perpendicular to stamp seven, label five: PHOTOGRAPH/ BY/ Ansel Adams/ NO. NEG NO. on label five, typed: YOSEMITE VALLEY STORM/ SLIGHT GOLD TONE on label five, graphite: 1938 mount, verso, u.r., black ink: L [circled] mount, verso, l.r., black ink: #15 mount, verso, l.l., graphite: 1 [circled]
ProvenanceBetween 1967 and 1973, sold by the artist to William H. Lane (b. 1914 - d. 1995) and Saundra B. Lane, Lunenburg, MA; 2018, gift of Saundra B. Lane to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 26, 2018)